As early-stage investors, we’re always noticing new trends and conversations in the tech community, and Web3 is one of those that keeps popping up. As we look into the sector, we wanted to share a few things we’re learning. To understand where Web3 is going, we must first understand the evolution and where we came …
The Annual Sierra Ventures CXO Advisory Board Tech Survey gives us insight into the Enterprises’ views and priorities for 2022. The Sierra Ventures CXO Advisory Board includes F2000 Technology Leaders (CIOs/CTOs) across industries including Financial Services, Healthcare & Pharma, Manufacturing & Energy, Retail & Consumer, and Technology & Internet. Responses were solicited from more than …
The world is ever-changing and as an early-stage technology investment firm, we consistently evaluate our investment thesis to ensure we’re backing the companies that are moving the world forward. Looking into 2022, the Sierra Team reflects on the trends we’re seeing now and on the near horizon, including: “Technification” of Industry Verticals and Infrastructure Democratization …
Replacing the 3 Rs with the 3 As The Importance of Human Advantages, Automation and AI to the Future of Work Concern about the impact of technology – like robots and artificial intelligence (AI) – is nothing new, tracing back several centuries when machines for harvesting grain, the cotton gin and the steam engine, spawned …
Our Q1 CXO Advisory Board call focused on how enterprises should be evaluating the increasing promise of quantum computing. The event was moderated by Sierra Ventures Managing Partner Ben Yu and speakers included Michael Brett, Worldwide Business Development and GTM Strategy for Quantum Computing at AWS and Michael Biercuk, CEO & Founder of Q-CTRL. Quantum …
The following is a guest post from Sierra Ventures portfolio company, QuillBot. *** It’s an exciting time to be an NLP-based company. Advances in the field have reduced costs and the time needed for processing and training. Additionally, overall model output quality has increased due to more robust pre-trained models. All of these factors have …
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Over the past few months, the Wall Street Journal and Goldman Sachs have begun to use Drop’s Cardify.ai data highlighting insights into consumer spend and income during the COVID-19 pandemic. Even cloud juggernaut Snowflake is using Cardify.ai as a featured dataset during demos with their customers. Why is that? Cardify.ai’s market validated database has access …
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Our world is fundamentally different than it was at the beginning of 2020. As early-stage investors, we are still looking for answers to how the “next normal” will play out. Many of the early 2020 forecasts within the technology industry have not come to fruition at the scale that was originally thought. The ongoing COVID …
Many companies are exploring utilizing machine learning (ML) technology, however, getting a model deployed and into production is no easy feat. Many data scientists lack the necessary tooling to properly train, manage, and deploy ML models. Machine Learning Operations, or MLOps, is commonly viewed as the application of DevOps principles to machine learning systems which …
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have been buzzwords in the tech ecosystem for years, yet we’ve only scratched the surface of innovation that is possible. A simplified definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the umbrella of machines performing “smart” tasks that humans would normally carry out. Machine Learning (ML) is a subset of that umbrella …
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